Red Cook and Purple Yam Team Up for Chinese New Year

January 21, 2014

Kiam Lam Kho, Red Cook on line, is one of the sweetest people on earth. Aside from being a good friend, he is knowledgeable about Chinese cooking techniques (he is coming out soon with a book precisely on that subject) and he does Chinese food close to the heart of Chinoys (Chinese Filipinos) because of his Hokkien background. He came over to Purple Yam last week to test out recipes with Romy that we will be serving for the weekend of January 31 – February 2, 2014 to bring in the Year of the Horse.

Kian Lam Kho, who is Red Cook, does a beautiful, well researched food blog on Chinese food

He brought over some peanut candies, typical of Asian generosity. The peanut candies are also made by local Chinese bakeries in Manila Chinatown.

Romy's Champoy ice cream is another seemingly strange combination of salty, sweet, creamy and cold flavors at the same time, but it works! Champoy is salted dried plums and every Filipino kid grew up eating this. The ice cream will be paired with the pumpkin pancake.

Thank you Kian for being such a great friend and sharing your recipes with us.